Teaming to Upgrade to Excellence in Environmental Biology, Ecosystem Research and AgroBiodiversity

Información del proyecto

BIOPOLIS

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 857251

DOI

10.3030/857251

Fecha de la firma de la CE 2 Julio 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Octubre 2019

Fecha de finalización 30 Septiembre 2027

Financiado con arreglo a

• Teaming of excellent research institutions and low performing RDI regions

Coste total

€ 14 988 525,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 14 988 525,00

Coordinado por

ASSOCIACAO BIOPOLIS
Portugal

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Documents, reports (11)

1st Implementation Report

The Implementation Report is a standard deliverable which should be submitted at the time when the periodic report is submitted to the Research Executive Agency It will detail the future plans of the consortium regarding implementation of the project for the subsequent period including also ethical issues and how they will be addressed It should refer to policyrelevant key aspects of the project future actions plans of the consortium in relation to the implementation of the project This deliverable refers to the 1st year of implementation

Education and Training Strategy

Education and Training Strategy will be drafted by the CAEU in collaboration with the SC and the RUs benefiting from the best practice of UM The strategy will set the rules regarding for instance the processes of recruitment the mechanisms of supervision and mentoring of PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers and the general themes and calendar of the advanced courses

1st Report of the Education and Training Activities

1st Report of the Education and Training Activities address the Doctoral programs Post Doctoral Training Program and Advanced Training

2nd Implementation Report
3rd Implementation Report
Definition of CoE KPIs

The performance indicators identified in the application will be used as the starting point to define the Key Performance Indicators of the CoE, and its ability to achieve the identified impacts .

1st Review of the Affiliates Programme

1st Revision of the Affiliates Programme.

Strategic Research Programme

This deliverable is an update of the research strategy developed in the Business Plan, preparing a roadmap to steer the development of excellent research towards innovation. It will set up the Research Units (RU), and will create the conditions for implementing the research strategy.

Implementation Plan for Ethics and Animal Welfare Guidelines

This document reviews the best practices in the UM services CECEMA Centre dElevage et de Conditionnement Exprimental des Modles Animaux and get advice from them and will receive inputs from UM researchers involved in this component Given the research focus of the CoE particular attention will be given to the aspects regarding experiments with animals and the quality of the facilities to keep animals in captivity while complying with the three Rs strategy replacement reduction and refinement

Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation Plan

The CDE Plan main objectives are i To raise regional national and international awareness recognition and attractiveness of BIOPOLIS RI promoting its areas of excellence ii To disseminate BIOPOLISs research and innovation enabling others to use and take up results and thus maximising its impact iii To identify relevant audiences markets and business segments in order to create and foster concrete exploitation of research results and iv to contribute to fund raising and the sustainability of the CoE The Plan will detail the activities to be carried out including for instance the partner responsibilities in their implementation the calendar and the models of implementation

1st Research Funding Review

1st review of the Research Funding activities including participation in the final opportunities from H2020, in the Horizon Europe calls and future framework Programmes and accessing to Portuguese funds.

Open Research Data Pilot (2)

Review of the Data Management Plan including ORDP: Open Research Data Pilot

Revision and update of the Data Management Plan.

Data Management Plan including ORDP: Open Research Data Pilot

This Plan will include the provisions for making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), and it will describe the open access policies, following the guidelines set in the H2020 Online Manual.

Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Ancient dog introgression into the Iberian wolf genome may have facilitated adaptation to human-dominated landscapes

Autores: Diana Lobo, Hernán E. Morales, Cock Van Oosterhout, José Vicente López-Bao, Pedro Silva, Luis Llaneza, Carolina Pacheco, Diana Castro, Germán Hernández-Alonso, George Pacheco, John Archer, M. Tho
Publicado en: Genome Research, Edición 35, 2025, Página(s) 432-445, ISSN 1088-9051
Editor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.279093.124

The Terrific Skink bite force suggests insularity as a likely driver to exceptional resource use

Autores: Michael J. Jowers, Yuri Simone, Anthony Herrel, M. Pilar Cabezas, Raquel Xavier, Magaly Holden, Renaud Boistel, John C. Murphy, Mathieu Santin, Stephane Caut, Renoir J. Auguste, Arie van der Meijden, Franco Andreone & Ivan Ineich
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08148-6

An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola

Autores: Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Arthur Tiutenko, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. P. Ceríaco
Publicado en: ZooKeys, Edición 1201, 2024, Página(s) 167-217, ISSN 1313-2989
Editor: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

How vulnerable are bryophytes to climate change? Developing new species and community vulnerability indices

Autores: H. Hespanhol, K. Cezón, J. Muñoz, R.G. Mateo, J. Gonçalves
Publicado en: Ecological Indicators, 2022, ISSN 1872-7034
Editor: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108643

Multi-temporal remote sensing of inland surface waters: A fusion of sentinel-1&2 data applied to small seasonal ponds in semiarid environments

Autores: Francesco Valerio, Sérgio Godinho, Gonçalo Ferraz, Ricardo Pita, João Gameiro, Bruno Silva, Ana Teresa Marques, João Paulo Silva
Publicado en: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Edición 135, 2025, Página(s) 104283, ISSN 1569-8432
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2024.104283

Fine-scale survey of intertidal macroalgae reveals recent changes in a cold-water biogeographic stronghold

Autores: Cátia Monteiro, Joana Pereira, Rui Seabra and Fernando P. Lima
Publicado en: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, ISSN 2296-7745
Editor: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.880074

Phylogenetic evidence suggests the non-validity of the Iberian land snail genus Tartessiberus and confirms its synonymy with Iberus (Helicidae)

Autores: Michael J. Jowers, José Liétor, Antonio R. Tudela, Pedro A. Jódar, Inés Galán-Luque, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda
Publicado en: ZooKeys, Edición 1201, 2024, Página(s) 219-231, ISSN 1313-2989
Editor: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.117318

Using GPS and accelerometer data to remotely detect breeding events in two elusive ground-nesting steppe birds

Autores: Gonçalo Ferraz, Carlos Pacheco, Mario Fernández-Tizón, Ana T. Marques, Paulo C. Alves, João P. Silva, François Mougeot
Publicado en: Animal Biotelemetry, Edición 12, 2024, ISSN 2050-3385
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40317-024-00385-y

Novel method to investigate thermal exchange rates in small, terrestrial ectotherms: A proof-of-concept on the gecko Tarentola mauritanica

Autores: Gabriel Mochales-Riaño, Frederico M. Barroso, Valéria Marques, Alexandra E. Telea, Marco Sannolo, Catarina Rato, Miguel A. Carretero
Publicado en: PLOS ONE, Edición 19, 2024, Página(s) e0316283, ISSN 1932-6203
Editor: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316283

The genetics of adaptation in freshwater Eurasian shad ( Alosa)

Autores: Stephen J. Sabatino, Paulo Pereira, Miguel Carneiro, Jolita Dilytė, John Patrick Archer, Antonio Munoz, Francesco Nonnis-Marzano, Antonio Murias
Publicado en: Ecology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 2045-7758
Editor: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8908

Multiple genomic ancestries in the broom hare mark the complex biogeographic history of hares in the Iberian Peninsula

Autores: João Souto, João P Marques, Liliana Farelo, José Costa, João Queirós, Christian Pietri, Fernando Ballesteros, Paulo C Alves, Pierre Boursot, José Melo-Ferreira
Publicado en: Evolution, Edición 79, 2025, Página(s) 1469-1479, ISSN 0014-3820
Editor: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf082

DNA Markers for Detection and Genotyping of Xanthomonas euroxanthea

Autores: Kayla Gisela Silva,Leonor Martins,Miguel Teixeira,Joël F. Pothier and Fernando Tavares
Publicado en: Microorganisms, 2022, ISSN 2076-2607
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10061078

Predicting the expansion of invasive species: how much data do we need?

Autores: Joana Santana, Neftalí Sillero, Joana Ribeiro, César Capinha, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Luís Reino
Publicado en: NeoBiota, Edición 95, 2024, Página(s) 109-132, ISSN 1314-2488
Editor: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.95.122335

Lymphocystis viral disease impacts the diversity and functional profiles of the skin microbiome in gilthead seabream

Autores: Raquel Xavier, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Sofia Marques Silva, Marilia Lino, Maria João Faleiro, Paula Canada
Publicado en: Frontiers in Microbiology, Edición 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-302X
Editor: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1470572

Performance of post-mortem diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in wild ungulates at low and high prevalence assessed using Bayesian latent class models

Autores: Beatriz Cardoso, Saúl Jiménez-Ruiz, Alberto Perelló Jiménez, Miguel Nóvoa, João P. V. Santos, Margarida Correia-Neves, Christian Gortázar, Nuno Santos
Publicado en: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Edición 11, 2024, ISSN 2297-1769
Editor: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1415277

Forest type modulates mammalian responses to megafires

Autores: Marcelo Magioli, Luanne Helena Augusto Lima, Priscilla Marqui Schmidt Villela, Ricardo Sampaio, Lilian Bonjorne, Renan Lieto Alves Ribeiro, Daniel Luis Zanella Kantek, Selma Samiko Miyazaki, Thiago B.
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-64460-3

An updated herpetofauna species inventory of Iona National Park in Southwestern Angola

Autores: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Pedro Vaz Pinto, François S. Becker, Krystal A. Tolley, John Measey, Bruce Bennet, Bastiaan Boon, Sango de Sá, Werner Conradie
Publicado en: Check List, 2022, ISSN 1809-127X
Editor: Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
DOI: 10.15560/18.2.289

Origins and taxonomic status of Hemidactylus geckos on the Îles Éparses of the Western Indian Ocean

Autores: D. James Harris, Mickaël Sanchez, Sara Rocha
Publicado en: Herpetozoa, Edición 37, 2024, Página(s) 181-187, ISSN 2682-955X
Editor: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e118699

Adaptive or non-adaptive? Cranial evolution in a radiation of miniaturized day geckos

Autores: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Jesus Marugán-Lobón, Sergio M. Nebreda, David Buckley, Edward L. Stanley, Stephanie Köhnk, Frank Glaw, Werner Conradie, Aaron M. Bauer
Publicado en: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Edición 24, 2024, ISSN 2730-7182
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02344-w

MIMt: a curated 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy at species-level identification

Autores: M. Pilar Cabezas, Nuno A. Fonseca, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida
Publicado en: Environmental Microbiome, Edición 19, 2024, ISSN 2524-6372
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40793-024-00634-w

Table for two: Diet composition differences of allopatric and sympatric populations of island geckos

Autores: Catarina J. Pinho, Bárbara Santos, Vanessa A. Mata, Ricardo J. Lopes, Maria M. Romeiras, Evandro P. Lopes, Paulo C. Alves, Brent C. Emerson, Raquel Vasconcelos
Publicado en: Global Ecology and Conservation, Edición 57, 2025, Página(s) e03412, ISSN 2351-9894
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03412

Beta-lactam antimicrobials activity and the diversity of blaZ gene in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine mastitis in the northwest of Portugal

Autores: Rachid Hnini, Eliane Silva, Luís Pinho, Mohamed Najimi, Gertrude Thompson
Publicado en: Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, Edición 53, 2024, ISSN 1516-3598
Editor: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
DOI: 10.37496/rbz5320230024

The evolutionary pathways for local adaptation in mountain hares

Autores: Iwona Giska, João Pimenta, Liliana Farelo, Pierre Boursot, Klaus Hackländer, Hannes Jenny, Neil Reid, W Ian Montgomery, Paulo A Prodöhl, Paulo C Alves, José Melo-Ferreira
Publicado en: Molecular Ecology, 2022, ISSN 1365-294X
Editor: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16338

New data on the diversity and distribution of lineages of the Acanthodactylus erythrurus species complex in North Africa derived from mitochondrial DNA markers

Autores: D. James Harris, Dimitra Sergiadou, J. Filipe Faria
Publicado en: Herpetozoa, Edición 37, 2024, Página(s) 281-286, ISSN 2682-955X
Editor: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e118175

A treasure trove of endemics: two new species of snake-eyed skinks of the genus Panaspis Cope, 1868 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, southwestern Angola

Autores: Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Arthur Tiutenko, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. P. Ceríaco
Publicado en: Evolutionary Systematics, Edición 8, 2024, Página(s) 167-182, ISSN 2535-0730
Editor: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.8.121103

The effect of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor?

Autores: João Paulo Silva, João Paulo Silva, Ana Teresa Marques, Joana Bernardino, Tris Allinson, Yuri Andryushchenko, Sutirtha Dutta, Mimi Kessler, Ricardo C. Martins, Francisco Moreira, John Pallett, Mattheuns D. Pretorius, H. Ann Scott, Jessica M. Shaw and Nigel J. Collar
Publicado en: Bird Conservation Intrenational, 2022, ISSN 1467-2235
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959270922000314

Genetic analysis of <i>Pinna rudis</i> L 1758 (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pinnidae) in the Northwest Cabo Verde Islands (Central-East Atlantic)

Autores: Evandro P. Lopes, Sarah Santos, Raquel Xavier, Joana L. Santos, M. Pilar Cabezas, Fernando Sequeira, António M. Santos
Publicado en: PeerJ, Edición 13, 2025, Página(s) e18328, ISSN 2167-8359
Editor: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18328

Age-related spatial ecology of Audouin’s gull during the non-breeding season

Autores: R Ponti, V Morera-Pujol, Á Sallent, J González-Solís, R Ramos
Publicado en: Endangered Species Research, Edición 55, 2024, Página(s) 155-167, ISSN 1863-5407
Editor: Inter-Research Science Center
DOI: 10.3354/esr01370

Clarifying the taxonomy of some cryptic blennies (Blenniidae) in their native and introduced range

Autores: M. Pilar Cabezas, Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá, Elena Quintero-T, Raquel Xavier, Tommaso Giarrizzo, Jorge L. S. Nunes, Fabiola S. Machado, Jesús Gómez, Wellington Silva Pedroza & Michael J. Jowers
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12580-z

Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa

Autores: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Ninda L Baptista, Tyron Clark, Luke Verburgt, Gregory FM Jongsma, Werner Conradie, Luis Veríssimo, Pedro Vaz Pinto
Publicado en: African Journal of Herpetology, Edición 74, 2025, Página(s) 1-59, ISSN 2156-4574
Editor: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2024.2421007

Social‐ecological memory: From concepts and methods to applications

Autores: Ana R. Cardoso, Cláudia Fernandes, João P. Honrado
Publicado en: Geographical Research, Edición 63, 2025, Página(s) 179-198, ISSN 1745-5863
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12683

Modelling technical and biological biases in macroinvertebrate community assessment from bulk preservative using multiple metabarcoding markers

Autores: Filipa M. S. Martins, Miguel Porto, Maria J. Feio, Bastian Egeter, Aurélie Bonin, Sónia R. Q. Serra, Pierre Taberlet, Pedro Beja
Publicado en: Molecular Ecology, 2020, ISSN 0962-1083
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15620

The mitochondrial genomes of Iberian freshwater and diadromous fishes

Autores: Joana Veríssimo, Manuel Curto, Maria Judite Alves, Pedro Raposo de Almeida, Enric Aparicio, Miguel Clavero, Cátia Chaves, Carlos Fernandez-Delgado, Jesús Hernández, Sissel Jentoft, Lukáš Kalous,
Publicado en: Scientific Data, Edición 12, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04297-7

Fine-scale abundance of rocky shore macroalgae species with distribution limits in NW Iberia in 2020/2021

Autores: Joana Pereira, Catia Monteiro, Rui Seabra, Fernando P Lima
Publicado en: Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022, ISSN 1314-2828
Editor: Pensoft Publishers Ltd
DOI: 10.3897/bdj.10.e80798

The legacy of recurrent introgression during the Radiation of Hares

Autores: MAFALDA S. FERREIRA, MATTHEW R. JONES, COLIN M. CALLAHAN, LILIANA FARELO, ZELALEM TOLESA, FRANZ SUCHENTRUNK, PIERRE BOURSOT, L. SCOTT MILLS7, PAULO C. ALVES, JEFFREY M. GOOD, AND JOSÉ MELO-FERREIRA
Publicado en: Systematic Biology, 2021, ISSN 1063-5157
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa088

Biogeographical patterns of amphibians and reptiles in the northernmost coastal montane complex of South America

Autores: Gilson A. Rivas,Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá,Douglas Rodríguez-Olarte,Mayke De Freitas,John C. Murphy,Cristian Pizzigalli,John C. Weber,Laurent de Verteuil,Michael J. Jowers
Publicado en: PLoS One, 2021, ISSN 1932-6203
Editor: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246829

Oceanic islands act as drivers for the genetic diversity of marine species: Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the NE Atlantic as a case-study

Autores: Livia Sinigaglia, L Baptista, C Alves, F Feldmann, C Sacchetti, C Rupprecht, T Vijayan, E Martín-González, SP Ávila, AM Santos, M Curto, H Meimberg
Publicado en: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Edición 24, 2024, ISSN 2730-7182
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02322-2

Environmental Gradients in Lizard Colouration

Autores: Lekshmi B. Sreelatha, Pedro Tarroso, Ossi Nokelainen, Zbyszek Boratyński, Miguel Angel Carretero
Publicado en: Ecology and Evolution, Edición 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-7758
Editor: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71012

Evidence of a twofold ecological trap driven by agricultural change causing a priority farmland bird population crash

Autores: João Gameiro, Ana Teresa Marques, Luís Venâncio, Francesco Valerio, Carlos Pacheco, Américo Guedes, José Pereira, Luís Ribeiro, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja, Beatriz Arroyo, João Paulo Silva
Publicado en: Conservation Science and Practice, Edición 6, 2025, ISSN 2578-4854
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.13168

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Characterization of the oral microbiome of medicated type-2 diabetes patients

Autores: Ana Almeida-Santos, Daniela Martins-Mendes, Magdalena Gayà-Vidal, Lucía Pérez-Pardal and Albano Beja-Pereira
Publicado en: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021, ISSN 1664-302X
Editor: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.610370

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LIFE EVERYWHERE

Número de solicitud/publicación: No 018938656
Fecha: 2024-01-30
Solicitante(s): ASSOCIACAO BIOPOLIS